Engineering Manager, Consensus

Google; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 480,000 - 492,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 20%

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of engineers, guiding both people and code across multiple domains including information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and large-scale systems.

You will set project goals, contribute to product strategy, and help engineers optimize their work, while ensuring alignment with broader organizational objectives and budgets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, C++ and Distributed Systems.
• 5 years of experience in a people management role within software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of software engineers, provide active mentorship, coaching, and career guidance to both junior and senior engineers, fostering a collaborative engineering culture.
• Guide, vet, and drive system architectures and strategies for Google's core infrastructure.
• Partner closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to proactively triage, root-cause, and resolve complex production or system issues, driving systemic reliability and maintainability improvements throughout the stack.
• Own strategic outcomes for multiple high-impact projects from the consensus portfolio, planning resources, establish Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), navigate ambiguity, and optimize project velocity to deliver against long-term goals.

Skills

Software development

C++

Distributed Systems

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 8 years of experience in software development, C++ and Distributed Systems.


• 5 years of experience in a people management role within software engineering.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 8 years of experience in software development, C++ and Distributed Systems.


• 5 years of experience in a people management role within software engineering.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience with system architecture.


• Experience with distributed systems and Google production infrastructure will be an advantage.

About The Job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started - and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Poland: zł480000 - zł492000 (PLN) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of software engineers, provide active mentorship, coaching, and career guidance to both junior and senior engineers, fostering a collaborative engineering culture.


• Guide, vet, and drive system architectures and strategies for Google's core infrastructure.


• Partner closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to proactively triage, root-cause, and resolve complex production or system issues, driving systemic reliability and maintainability improvements throughout the stack.


• Own strategic outcomes for multiple high-impact projects from the consensus portfolio, planning resources, establish Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), navigate ambiguity, and optimize project velocity to deliver against long-term goals.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .